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More Health Care Professionals and Trainees Provoked to Resist - Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Protest of Leaders ' Acquiescence to Trump ' s Muslim Travel Ban
The executive order by President Trump that temporarily banned immigration from seven predominantly Muslim countries provoked health care professionals and trainees to challenge another health care leader whom had not been so challenged previously.We recently described how professionals and trainees protested the decision by Cleveland Clinic CEO Toby Cosgrove not to cancel a fund raising event a Mar a Lago, the resort owned by President Trump, even though Mr Trump ' s ban had resulted in the deportation (since reversed) of a Cleveland Clinic physician trainee, and Cleveland Clinic health care professionals and trainees had...
Source: Health Care Renewal - February 9, 2017 Category: Health Management Tags: anechoic effect boards of directors Bristol-Myers-Squibb conflicts of interest Donald Trump Harvard Medical School logical fallacies Source Type: blogs

The Inconvenient Truth about the Military and Veterans Health Systems? They ’ re Working Just Fine.
 By PAUL KECKLEY Lieutenant colonel Justin Constantine USMC Through the years, I’ve had the honor of speaking to groups after they heard from notables like Michael J. Fox, Sammy Hagar, Jeff Immelt, U.S. Secretaries of Health Tommy Thompson and Mike Leavitt, Warren Buffet and others. They’re the headliners and I usually follow them with a less celebrated presentation about the current issues and future in healthcare.  Earlier this month, in Arizona, I spoke to 3M’s annual healthcare conference following Lt. Colonel Justin Constantine, a Marine who served from 1997-2013. Justin’s story is profound: he was plying hi...
Source: The Health Care Blog - February 5, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: John Irvine Tags: OP-ED Uncategorized Source Type: blogs

Dear Mr. President: Here ’ s the Inconvenient Truth about the Military and Veterans Health Systems
 By PAUL KECKLEY Lieutenant colonel Justin Constantine USMC Through the years, I’ve had the honor of speaking to groups after they heard from notables like Michael J. Fox, Sammy Hagar, Jeff Immelt, U.S. Secretaries of Health Tommy Thompson and Mike Leavitt, Warren Buffet and others. They’re the headliners and I usually follow them with a less celebrated presentation about the current issues and future in healthcare.  Earlier this month, in Arizona, I spoke to 3M’s annual healthcare conference following Lt. Colonel Justin Constantine, a Marine who served from 1997-2013. Justin’s story is profound: he was plying hi...
Source: The Health Care Blog - February 5, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: John Irvine Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs

Purging Healthcare of Unnatural Acts
BY UWE REINHARDT Everyone knows (or should know) that forcing a commercial health insurer to write for an individual a health insurance policy at a premium that falls short of the insurer’s best ex ante estimate of the cost of health care that individual will require is to force that insurer into what economists might call an unnatural act. Remarkably, countries that rely on competing private health insurers to operate their universal, national health insurance systems all do just that. They allow each insurer to set the premium for a government-mandated , comprehensive benefit package, but require that each insurer “...
Source: The Health Care Blog - January 31, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: John Irvine Tags: Uncategorized Uwe Reinhardt Source Type: blogs

Politico Healthcare Briefing: What ’s Next for Drug Costs?
Discussion Dr. Bach argued that there was a “fundamental disconnect” between efforts to reduce costs of coverage and bring top treatments to patients. He expressed support for drug price negotiations under the Affordable Care Act, stating that such efforts have saved taxpayers over $10 billion. He also warned that if high-deductible health plans remain popular, tools will need to be developed to indicate to physicians when their prescribing patterns are negatively affecting their patients and have open conversations about the affordability of the drugs they are prescribing. Ms. Bryant expressed hope that lawmakers ca...
Source: Policy and Medicine - January 26, 2017 Category: American Health Authors: Thomas Sullivan - Policy & Medicine Writing Staff Source Type: blogs

The Best-Laid Plans For Health Care
Editor’s note: These issues and more will be discussed at the 5th Annual Health Law Year in P/Review conference, to be held on January 23, 2017, at Harvard Law School in Cambridge, MA. The event is free and open to the public, but registration is required. Conference presenters will participate in a blog series to follow here on Health Affairs Blog. Stay tuned. In the meantime, you can check out last year’s Health Law Year in P/Review blog series here. “The best-laid plans of mice and men often go awry.” This phrase, adapted from the 1785 Robert Burns Poem “To a Mouse” and made as the source of the title o...
Source: Health Affairs Blog - January 5, 2017 Category: Health Management Authors: I. Glenn Cohen Tags: Drugs and Medical Technology Following the ACA Health Policy Lab Organization and Delivery Payment Policy Public Health 21st Century Cures Act Supreme Court The Health Law Year in P/Review Source Type: blogs

Concerns about the ”Border Adjustable” Tax Plan from the House GOP, Part II
Iwrote yesterday to praise theBetter Way tax plan put forth by House Republicans, but I added a very important caveat: The “destination-based” nature of the revised corporate income tax could be a poison pill for reform.I listed five concerns about a so-called destination-based cash flow tax (DBCFT), most notably my concerns that it would undermine tax competition (folks on the left think it creates a “race to the bottom” when governments have to compete with each other) and also that it could (because of international trade treaties) be an inadvertent stepping stone for agovernment-expanding value-added tax.Brian ...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - January 4, 2017 Category: American Health Authors: Daniel J. Mitchell Source Type: blogs

ACA Round-Up: Robust Marketplace Enrollment, CBO On Defining Health Insurance, And More
As of December 19, 2016, the extended deadline for enrolling in coverage for January 1, 2017, 6,356,488 consumers were covered by plans selected on HealthCare.gov, the Department of Health and Human Services announced on December 21. This was over 400,000 more than last year when applications closed for January 1, 2016 coverage on December 17, 2015. This included 2,049,127 new consumers and 4,307,361 returning consumers. Over 2.3 million signed up between December 11 and 19. These numbers include neither state marketplace enrollees nor 2016 enrollees who will be batch auto-enrolled for 2017 over the next few days. In 2016,...
Source: Health Affairs Blog - December 22, 2016 Category: Health Management Authors: Timothy Jost Tags: Following the ACA Insurance and Coverage Source Type: blogs

Despite Long Record of Misadventures, Johnson and Johnson to Receive Award for " Ethical Leadership?! "
What does it take for a big pharmaceutical/ device/ biotechnology company to get an ethics award?Reported by Sheila Kaplan at Stat (but for subscribers only), and first noticed by Carl Elliott and justdiscussed on his Fear and Loathing in Bioethics blog, it appears that the giant Johnson and Johnson pharma/ device/ biotech company will get an award in " ethical leadership " from and " organization called Fellowships at Auschwitz for the Study of Professional Ethics, or FASPE. "The Stat report, quoted by Dr Elliott, stated:FASPE Chairman David Goldman, an attorney in New York, said he wasaware of the pharma giant ’s vario...
Source: Health Care Renewal - December 14, 2016 Category: Health Management Tags: crime health care ethics Johnson and Johnson legal settlements Source Type: blogs

21st Century Cures Act Becomes Law, Improves U.S. National Mental Health Efforts
When President Obama signed the 21st Century Cures Act on December 13th, he signed into law one of the most sweeping efforts to provide additional programs and funding for health conditions and innovation in America, including cancer, Alzheimer’s disease, opioid addiction, medical devices, access to new drugs, and mental health. The Cures Act includes the major provisions of the Senate mental health compromise bill, Mental Health Reform Act of 2016, as well as a few additional provisions from the House’s over-reaching Helping Families in Mental Health Crisis Act of 2016 bill. While the bill goes a long way in h...
Source: World of Psychology - December 13, 2016 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: John M. Grohol, Psy.D. Tags: General Mental Health and Wellness Policy and Advocacy 21st century cures Helping Families in Crisis mental health reform act Mental Illness Source Type: blogs

Revenues from Trump Plan Unfairly Compared to Fanciful CBO Projections
Tax Policy Center estimate of a 10-year $6.2 trillion revenue loss is used to predict higher interest rates, and those higher interest rates prevent the economy from growing faster, which in turn vindicates the static assumption of a $6.2 trillion revenue loss.  The circularity of this tangled fable is remarkably illogical.   How could interest rates remain higher if private investment is crowded out leaving GDP growth unchanged?The TPC tells a similar story about the House Republican tax plan.   “Although the House GOP tax planwould improve incentives to save and invest, it would also substantially increase budget de...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - December 1, 2016 Category: American Health Authors: Alan Reynolds Source Type: blogs

Tilting at Sawmills: Extortion and Lawlessness Prominent in U.S. Approach to Canadian Lumber
Donald Trump has called the North American Free Trade Agreement the “worst trade deal ever negotiated.” If he were speaking on behalf of Canadian exporters or American consumers of softwood lumber, his point would have some validity. For more than 20 years, NAFTA has failed to deliver free trade in lumber. Instead, a system of managed trade has persisted at the behest of rent-seeking U.S. producers, egged on by Washington lawyers and lobbyists who know a gravy train when they see one.Those who consider the United States a beacon of free trade in a swirling sea of protectionist scofflaws will be surprised by the sordid ...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - November 29, 2016 Category: American Health Authors: Daniel J. Ikenson Source Type: blogs

The Uncertainty Bomb
By PAUL KECKLEY I like certainty and routine. I like my daily Tall Dark Roast with no room for cream at 5 am at Starbucks. I like the same restaurants, the same suits and ties and the same TV shows. Holidays throw me off and I get bored quickly when I have down time. For six years, the healthcare industry in the U.S. has been adjusting to its new normal based on the regulatory framework of the Affordable Care Act (ACA). It became routine to discuss the volume to value, accountable care organizations, bundled payments, Medicaid expansion and Healthcare.gov. We were certain they’d be around for years to come. Then came th...
Source: The Health Care Blog - November 27, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: John Irvine Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs

Cleaning up the Indian Economy
It's now been a week since the Prime Minister demonetized the Rs 500 and Rs 1000 notes and it's time to reassess the situation. I for one have been very impressed by his ability to pull off a pretty dramatic move but lots of my friends have completely different opinions. Some of them think that instead of inconveniencing the ordinary man he should have gone after the high profile politicians and businessmen who are known to have lots of black money stashed away. Others believe that these stunts are designed to please the masses. By positioning himself as a brave, larger than life Robin Hood who is out to snatch the ill-got...
Source: Dr.Malpani's Blog - November 18, 2016 Category: Reproduction Medicine Tags: demonetisation Indian economy PM Modi Rs 1000 currency notes Rs 500 cash Source Type: blogs

What Does the Trump Presidency Imply for Healthcare and Healthcare IT?
Many organizations have asked me to comment on the impact of the Trump Presidency on Healthcare and Healthcare IT.  I served the Bush administration for 4 years and the Obama administration for 6 years.  I know that change in Washington happens incrementally.  There is always an evolution, not a revolution, regardless of speechmaking hyperbole.What am I doing in Massachusetts?  I ’m staying the course, continuing my focus on social networking for healthcare, mobile, care management analytics, cloud, and security while leaving the strategic plan/budget as is.I have no inside information and no inv...
Source: Life as a Healthcare CIO - November 16, 2016 Category: Information Technology Source Type: blogs